Govt hopes to pass National Development Plan this week
Colombia’s National Development Plan will be debated in the Congress and Senate this week in order to try and pass the bill by Saturday, Caracol Radio reported. “I hope that…
Colombia’s National Development Plan will be debated in the Congress and Senate this week in order to try and pass the bill by Saturday, Caracol Radio reported. “I hope that…
A “heavyweight” American delegation will visit Colombia next Monday to discuss the future of the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement. The high level delegation is made up of six members of…
The U.S. believes that Colombia has made “significant positive developments” on human rights issues in 2010, EFE reported on Friday. The U.S. State Department presented its annual human rights report…
Thousands of students, teachers and activists across the country demonstrated Thursday in opposition to education reforms that propose private funding for public institutions. Students and faculty from public universities and…
The government is set to file before Congress on Wednesday an ambitious reform plan for the country’s prison system that seeks to eradicate corruption and indiscipline within penitentiaries, Caracol Radio…
UNI Global Union, an organization which represents 900 trade unions around the world, said that the human and labor rights situation in Colombia prevents it from supporting the U.S.- Colombia…
Paramilitaries and drug traffickers may have controlled 10% of Colombia’s land, according to a 2007 diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks Sunday, via El Espectador. The figure came from a series of…
A former congresswoman has been paid more than $250,000 in compensation for the salary and benefits she did not receive during the seven years she was held captive by the…
The Colombian government asked the country’s Congress for $3 billion after the Constitutional Court rejected an extended state of emergency that allowed the government to use special funds to help…